CBI shifts mining baron to Hyderabad
September 5th, 2011 - 6:16 pm ICT by IANSHyderabad, Sep 5 (IANS) Former Karnataka minister and mining baron Galli Janardhana Reddy and Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) director B. Srinivas Reddy, who were arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Andhra Pradesh early Monday in an illegal mining case, were brought here.
Amid tight security, the two were shifted to the CBI office in Hyderabad, where doctors examined them. The CBI officials later began questioning them. They were likely to be presented before a court later.
A CBI team from Hyderabad arrested Janardhana Reddy after raiding his residence at Bellary in Andhra Pradesh. Srinivasa Reddy was taken into custody after a raid on his houses in Bellary and Ananthapur.
CBI Joint Director V.V. Lakshminarayana, who led a team of officials who arrested the accused in Bellary, told reporters that they were arrested on the basis of evidence gathered by the agency.
“We will interrogate and collect more evidence,” he said when asked if the CBI would arrest more accused.
The arrests were made in connection with a case registered by the CBI against OMC in 2009 for illegal mining in the forest area of Andhra Pradesh bordering Karnataka.
The powerful Janardhana Reddy, Srinivas Reddy and others were booked under penal provisions for criminal conspiracy, cheating and under various sections of mining and forests acts.
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